Suspender buckle and webbing combination.



H. E. CRANDALL.

SUSPENDER BUCKLE AND WEBBING COMBINATION.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 6. 915.

Patented Apr. 4, 1916.

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Mfr/75555.9.

327 M as/7 THE COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPN (20., WASHINGTON, D, c.

HERMAN E. CRANDALL, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

SUSPENDER BUCKLE AND WEBBING COMBINATION.

Application filed May 6, 1915.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HERMAN E. CRANDALL, a citizen of the 'United States, residing at New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Suspender Buckle and Webbing Combinations, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in suspender buckle and webbing combina-. tions, and the object of my improvement is simplicity and economy in construction and convenience and efliciency in use.

In the accompanying drawing :Figure 1 is a front elevation in part broken away of my improved Suspender buckle. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 1 is a sectional view on the line wm of Fig. 1, with the webbing in place. Fig. 5 is a similar view, showing a different way of threading the webbing. Fig. 6 is a plan view.

My suspender buckle and webbing combination comprises a buckle having 'means for securing the fixed end of the webbing involving a combined pinching'and holding effect and means for clamping the running portion of the webbing, a metal loop 10 for supporting a trouser strap'being supported by a fold or loop 11 of the webbing between the said fixed end and the running portion.

The buckle comprises a frame of wire having a bar 12 at the upper end and a clamping lever pivotally supported on the said bar by means of hinge sleeve members 13, having a clamping lip 14 on one side-of the said sleeve member 13, provided with a serrated edge, and a handle 15 on the other side thereof.

The frame as statedis made of wire and the bar 12 is at the middle portion thereof.

From the ends of the bar 12 the wire is brought rearwardly by an open return bend, providing cross-connected and spacing loops 16 at the said ends. From the rear arms of the loops 16 the wire is brought inwardly, generally in parallelism with the bar 12 for an appreciable distance, forming a pair of short bars 17 in alinement. At the inner ends of the short bars 17 there is in each case an open downwardly directed return bend or loop 18, supporting outwardly directed lower short arms 19, which are parallel with the upper short arms 17 At the outer ends of the lower short arms 19 Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 4:, 19 16;.

Serial No. 26,244.

there is a second downwardly directed open: return bend 20, the lower arms of which serve as cooperating spring members of bar-- like. form. The said spring members or bars extend from the loop 20 almost but not en tirely across the width of the frame, each: terminating slightly inwardly from the loop 20 that supports the mating springmember, as will be noted from Figs. land 2, and are of less width than the width of the webbing.

Considering Fig. 1, the spring arm 21 extends to the left, parallel with the bar 12, and terminates appreciably inwardly of the lower loop 20 at the right, as may be best seen in Fig. 2. The spring arm 22, supported by the left hand lower loop 20 extends from the said loop to the right, in abutment with the matingspring arm 21, or

supported by the right hand lower loop 20 separated therefrom by the webbing when 7 y in use, and the free end 23 is given an outward bend to form with the opposed portion of the mating spring arm 21 a V-shaped entrance mouth, to facilitate entering the webbing between the two spring arms, and also forming av prong-like projection for embedding itself in the webbing.

. The webbing'may be applied to the buckle in various ways, two of which are shown.

Considering Fig. 4, the webbing is in?- serted between the spring arms 21 and 22,

with the raw end above the said arms.

Thenthe webbing is bent around the spring the spring arm 22 and under the clamping -lip 14:, thence upwardly to form the main supporting reach or body portion 28.

In the arrangement shown in Fig. 5 the webbing is inserted between the spring arms 21 and 22 with the raw end 29" directed downwardly. Passing from the said raw end 29 'upwardlybetween the spring 7 arms 21 and 22 the webbing passes directly over the interrupted bar 17, 17, as shown at 25 and then downwardly to form the loop 11 and under the clamping lip let as in the other arrangement described.

The portion of the frame that cooperates with the clamping lip 1a in clamping the running portion of the webbing is some part of the wire material adjacent the upper rear return bends 18. That is to say, in forming the said upper, rear return bends or loops 18 the material is brought inwardly sufficiently to cooperate with the clamping lip 14;, and particularly with the lateral edge portion thereof. As shown, the. loops 18 are appreciably separated, and the amount of such separation may be varied as desired. The two return bonds or loops 18 constitute essentially the body portion of the frame, the end connections 16 at the upper ends serving with the bar 12 to form a loop for admitting the webbing with the proper spacing for the bar 12, and to provide a pivotal support by means of the bar 12 for the clamping lever, and the lower end bends 20 providing supports for the spring arms 21 and 22.

It is apparent that some changes from the specific construction herein disclosed may be made, and therefore I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the precise form of construction shown and described, but desire the liberty to make such chan es, in working my invention, as may fairly come within the spirit and scope of the same. I

I claim as my invention r 1. A. suspender buckle comprising a frame and a clamping lever mounted thereon, the said frame being made of a piece of wire, the middle portion of the said wire being in the form of a bar and serving as a pivotal supportcfor the said lever, the portions intermediate the said middle portion and the end portions being bent suitably to form the body portion of the frame and to serve as clamping member in cooperation with the said lever, and the two end portions being also each of barlike form, extending inwardly from opposite sides of the frame, and overlapping one another for substantially their entire lengths suitably to serve Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, r

as spring members for cooperating to clamp webbing interposed therebetweenr 2. A frame for a suspender buckle formed of a piece of wire, the body portion of the said wire being bent suitably to form the body portion of the said frame, and thetwo end portions of the said wire being supported from opposite sides of the frame and extending inwardly from the junctions with the said frame, iii parallelism and overlap ping one another, and each terminating in a free end ad acent the unction of the other member with the frame, whereby the overlapping portions of the said wire serve as cooperating spring clamping members for clamping a webbing interposed tlierebe:

tween.

3. A frame for a suspender buckle formed of a piece of wire, the body portion of the said wire being bent suitably to form'the body portion of the said frame, and the two 7 7 end portions of the said wire being supported from opposite sides of the frame and extending inwardly from the junctions with the said frame, in parallelism and overlapping one another, and each terminating in a free end ad acent the unction of the other 7 member with the frame, and the extreme end of one of the said end portions being pair of cooperating clamping members for 1 i pinching the end of the webbing formed of single piece of wire, the body portion" of the said wire being bent to form the said frame and the end portions of the SitlClWlIe serving as the said clamping members, ex tending from the said frame in overlapping engagement suitably to pinch a webbing interposed therebetween, whereby the entire portion of the said wire that forms the said frame series also as a spring member to hold the said end portions in resilient en-' gagement.

HERMAN E. CRANDALLQ lVitnesses ROGER WV. Enwiinos, Louis M. SCHMIDT. 7

Washington, D. G. 

